" Stupid Car " is a slower song, almost a ballad, and the first of many dealing with Thom Yorke's distrust of vehicles since he and his girlfriend were involved in a car crash.

* Corrido — a form of ballad originating in northern Mexico and the U. S. Southwest

* Smithsonian Global Sound: The Music of Poetry — audio samples of poems, hymns and songs in ballad meter.

The proof that Homer does not belong to that school — and that his poetry is not in any true sense ballad poetry — is furnished by the higher artistic structure of his poems and, as regards style, by the fourth of the qualities distinguished by Arnold: the quality of nobleness.

An early 17th century broadside ballad, " The Mad Merry Pranks of Robin Goodfellow "— which is so deft and literate it has been taken for the work of Ben Jonson — describes Puck / Robin Goodfellow as the emissary of Oberon, the Faery King, inspiring night-terrors in old women but also carding their wool while they sleep, leading travellers astray, taking the shape of animals, blowing out the candles to kiss the girls in the darkness, twitching off their bedclothes, or making them fall out of bed on the cold floor, tattling secrets, and changing babes in cradles with elflings.

Suda's extraordinary account of the poet's death is found in other sources, such as Plutarch and Antipater of Sidon and later it inspired Friedrich Schiller to write a ballad called " The Cranes of Ibycus " yet the legend might be derived merely from a play upon the poet's name and the Greek word for the bird or ibyx — it might even have been told of somebody else originally.

In England — besides the ballad given in Thomas Percy's Reliques and reprinted in Francis James Child's English and Scotch Ballads ( 1st ed., viii.

Rolie sang lead vocals on only one song on Departure — the ballad " Someday Soon ".

Though the first single from the album — the Philly soul-oriented ballad " Do What You Want, Be What You Are "— barely made the Top 40, their second single was a smash.

His ballad “ Schön Rotraut ” — opening with the line “ Wie heisst König Ringangs Töchterlein ?” — became a popular favorite.

Their style of progressive rock often adopted the lyrical ballad style of the canonical repertoire, and mixed traditional instruments — flute and recorder, darbuka, and acoustical guitar — with electric guitars, trap sets and synthesizers.

* 1887 — The ballad of Hádji, and Other Poems

Their label expected another Top 10 ballad, like " Sister Christian " or " Sentimental Street ," but despite Kelly Keagy's passionate vocal, " Hearts Away " failed to catch on during Night Ranger's 1987 tour — a vigorous series of dates across North America and the Caribbean, featuring the Outfield as the opening act.

The Boston Phoenix noted its " stylistic stretches — a torch ballad, psychedelia, a kid's song, hardcore ", featuring " the rough-hewn pop gem ' Dandelion ,' the thrashy, new-wavish ' 18 Heads Roll By ,' and the punkish rant ' I'm Not a Waif.

The slow ballad " Don't Close Your Eyes "— containing anti-suicide lyrics — led the way ( peaking at No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 ) and other popular cuts followed.

It would be a power ballad that would give the album — and the band — its biggest hit.

The main story in the ballad, however — a heroic prizefight against a Russian sailor in Tierra del Fuego — does not seem to be historically documented.

On the rap ballad “ Ten Years ,” Diggs — a protégé of slain rapper Mac Dre — raps about his time in the yard and warns wayward youth not to follow in his footsteps.

The 1989 album, Avalon Sunset, which featured the hit duet with Cliff Richard " Whenever God Shines His Light " and the ballad " Have I Told You Lately " ( on which " earthly love transmutes into that for God.

The Houston Chronicle noted that Black's duet with Wynona Judd, " A Bad Goodbye ", was " precisely the kind of radio-ready, big-production ballad that record companies tend to force on their artists when they sense that their careers are in trouble .... t sticks out like a sore thumb in his body of work.

In 2009, Arnold lent her voice to the ballad " Trust ," a duet with Keyshia Cole, that peaked in the top five on Billboard Hot R & B / Hip-Hop Songs chart.

Among his best known musical performances were " The Welly Boot Song ", a parody of the Scottish folk song " The Wark O ' The Weavers ," which became his theme song for several years ; " In the Brownies ", a parody of the hit Village People song " In the Navy " ( for which Connolly filmed a music video ); " Two Little Boys in Blue ", a tongue-in-cheek indictment of police brutality done to the tune of Rolf Harris ' " Two Little Boys "; and the ballad " I Wish I Was in Glasgow ," which Connolly would later perform in duet with Malcolm McDowell on a guest appearance on the 1990s American sitcom Pearl ( which starred Rhea Perlman ).

Jackson's duet with Hayes, the ballad " Tonight I'm Yours ", was not released as a single, though received substantial airplay.

Stars & Stripes produced three more singles, including the ballad " Love Like There's No Tomorrow ", a duet with Thea.

In addtiton to " The Way Love Goes ", these include a duet with Britain's chart-topping pop / R & B boy-band JLS on a re-recording of Lemar's own 2003 ballad " What About Love ".

There is also a plaintive duet of sorts between Rice and McDowall ( who would later record an album of suicide songs under the name of Spell ) on the traditional murder ballad, " Down in the Willow Garden ".

The Diane Warren-penned ballad " Set The Night To Music " would become a hit four years later in 1991, as a duet between reggae singer Maxi Priest and & R & B legend Roberta Flack, as released from Flack's album " Set The Night To Music ".

The first title, " I Know You Want Me ", was a hip-hop duet recorded in common with Nastyboy Klick (# 109 on the US R & B ), while the second, a Latino hip-hop ballad, " When I'm with You " was her own solo track also produced by Marcus Cardenas.

* " Changes " ( Black Sabbath song ), a 1972 ballad by Black Sabbath, remade as a duet by Kelly and Ozzy Osbourne

sampled Rene & Angela's " Your Smile " for their rap song " Backstabbers "; Female Rapper Sylk-E. Fyne's 1998 Platinum hit " Romeo and Juliet " sampled Rene & Angela's R & B Top 5 hit " You Don't Have to Cry "; Sylk-E. Fyne also sampled their Top 5 hit " Your Smile " for her song " Your Style "; additionally, Adina Howard re-recorded their " You Don't Have to Cry " as a duet ; and Avant re-recorded the Rene & Angela ballad, " My First Love ", with singer Keke Wyatt in 2000.

European releases of the album include extras such as the ballad " Learning to Live " and a duet with Barry Hay, " I Don't Want to Be.

Among the best remembered songs are the up-tempo duet, " Thou Swell ", the ballad " My Heart Stood Still ", " On a Desert Island with Thee ", and " I Feel at Home with You ".

By the end of 1980, her hit " Yes, I'm Ready ", granted herself one-hit wonder status, with the disco-era making an exit, even though her duet with KC was a pop-fused remake of a famous slow-dancing ballad.

I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to write a top 40 type love ballad to be sung as a duet.

He rummaged, found composers and arrangers, collaborated on the main design and outline of harmonization with musicians, ballad singers, and musicologists.

Though versatile and capable of turning out a ballad lyric with the best of them, Mercer's forte is a highly polished quasi-folk wit.

He was also at the same time gaining practical experience as a safe breaker and highwayman, and learning how to shoot to kill from a Neanderthal convicted murderer named Gene Geary, later committed to Chester Asylum as a homicidal maniac, but whose eyes misted with tears when the young Dion sang a ballad about an Irish mother in his clear and syrupy tenor.

The album closes with " Sugar Baby ", a lengthy, dirge-like ballad, noted for its evocative, apocalyptic imagery and sparse production drenched in echo.

In the later 19th century it took on the meaning of a slow form of popular love song and the term is now often used as synonymous with any love song, particularly the pop or rock power ballad.

A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music.

The traditional, classical or popular ( meaning of the people ) ballad has been seen as originating with the wandering minstrels of late medieval Europe.

An 18th-century broadside ballad: The tragical ballad: or, the lady who fell in love with her serving-man.

Rather than the more aristocratic themes and music of the Italian opera, the ballad operas were set to the music of popular folk songs and dealt with lower-class characters.

Now the most commonly understood meaning of the term ballad, sentimental ballads, sometimes called " tear-jerkers " or " drawing-room ballads " owing to their popularity with the middle classes, had their origins in the early ‘ Tin Pan Alley ’ music industry of the later 19th century.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

An upright bassist auditioning for a blues band might be asked to play in a Swing-style walking bassline, a rockabilly-style " slapping " bassline ( in which the strings are percussively struck against the fingerboard ) and a 1950s ballad with long held notes.

Brenda K. Starr reached the Hot 100 with her ballad " I Still Believe ".

The group began composing and performing their own songs during this time including a Brown composition called " Goin ' Back to Rome " and a ballad Brown co-wrote with Terry titled " Please, Please, Please ".

The ballad, " Lost Someone ", credited with the Famous Flames, became, along with " Please, Please, Please ", an early show-stopper to Brown's shows, while the recording of the Joe Tex composition, " Baby You're Right " ( to which Brown altered completely from the original ), increased his reputation with R & B audiences.

Brown's reputation as a hit maker was confirmed later in 1966 with the release of the blues-inspired soul ballad, " It's a Man's Man's Man's World ".

After " Get Up Offa That Thing ", thirteen of Brown's late 1970s recordings for Polydor, failed to reach the Top 10 of the R & B chart, with only " Body Heat " in 1976 and the disco-oriented " It's Too Funky in Here " in 1979 reaching the R & B Top 15 and the ballad " Kiss in ' 77 " reaching the Top 20.

These dances were of the same type with dancers hand-in-hand and a leader who sang the ballad.

Their first release, " Buick 59 ," ( based on Todd Rhodes's double-entendre R & B hit " Rocket 69 ") was backed with a ballad called